AND the rest of the story…

From a decade ago:

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

…The Citizens United ruling, released in January 2010, tossed out the corporate and union ban on making independent expenditures and financing electioneering communications. It gave corporations and unions the green light to spend unlimited sums on ads and other political tools, calling for the election or defeat of individual candidates.

In a nutshell, the high court’s 5-4 decision said that it is OK for corporations and labor unions to spend as much as they want to convince people to vote for or against a candidate….

that’s what led to the creation of the super PACs, which act as shadow political parties. They accept unlimited donations from billionaires, corporations and unions and use it to buy advertising, most of it negative.

…. super PACs are required to report regularly on who their donors are. The same can’t be said for “social welfare” groups and some other nonprofits, like business leagues.

These groups can function the same way as super PACs, so long as election activity is not their primary activity. But unlike the super PACs, nonprofits do not report who funds them. That’s disturbing to those who favor transparency in elections…..

So that is who actually controlled our elections via unlimited funding.

What about the NGOs?
Maurice Strong’s early work with YMCA international “…may have been the genesis of Strong’s realization that NGOs (non-government organizations) provide an excellent way to use NGOs to couple the money from philanthropists and business with the objectives of government.”

…“Very few of even the larger international NGOs are operationally democratic, in the sense that members elect officers or direct policy on particular issues,”notes Peter Spiro. “Arguably it is more often money than membership that determines influence, and money more often represents the support of centralized elites, such as major foundations, than of the grass roots.”

The CGG has benefited substantially from the largesse of the MacArthur, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations….

http://www.afn.org/~govern/strong.html

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When I was commenting on WUWT, my personal troll, a bank contractor, went ballistic when I linked to A Talk by G. Edward Griffin (First archived June 2003, 2 decades ago.)
This is probably one of the reasons:

…it’s time for a new definition of usury as follows: any interest on any loan of fiat money (meaning money made out of nothing). This example of a $100,000 home, as shocking as it is, producing $172,741 unearned interest…. We’re talking about a river of unearned wealth that is so wide you can’t even think of crossing it, flowing perpetually into the banking cartel. A dead short across the productive element of society…

You are led to the question of where is this river flowing?…

👉They are spending it to acquire control over the power centers of society. The power centers are those groups and institutions through which individuals live and act and rely on for their information. They are literally buying up the world but not the real estate and the hardware, they’re buying control over the organizations, the groups and institutions that control people. In other words, to be specific, they are buying control over politicians, political parties, television networks, cable networks, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, wire services, motion picture studios, universities, labor unions, church organizations, trade associations, tax-exempt foundations, multi-national corporations, boy scouts, girl scouts, you name it….

What I’m trying to say is that the name of the game out there is not wealth, it is power.

AND THEN THINGS GET VERY INTERESTING…

One of the Badland authors, Joe Lange linked NGOs to the CIA…

The Difference Between Friend and Foe
(Remember in the 1974 Kissinger Report, National Security Study Memorandum NSSM 200, USAID was to be used to advance Population Control – GC)

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….USAID has been around for a long time. It’s a CIA front group that pretends to help poor people in war-torn countries, but it’s actually funneling taxpayers’ money into private organizations that are beyond the “Freedom Of Information Act”(FOIA). That is by design. There is no oversight over these private NGO’s. USAID funds these CIA groups all over the world.

Have you ever heard of Creative Associates International? (CAI)
According to the Mint Press News:

You have likely not heard of them, but Creative Associates International (CAI) is one of the largest and most powerful non-governmental organizations operating anywhere in the world.

A pillar of soft U.S. power, the group has been an architect in privatizing the Iraqi education system, designed messenger apps meant to overthrow the government of Cuba, served as a front group for the infamous Blackwater mercenary force (now rebranded as Academi), and liaised with Contra death squads in Nicaragua.

As such, it has functioned as “both an instrument of foreign policy and as a manifestation of a broader imperial project,” in the words of Professor Kenneth Saltman of the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Creative Associates International is a CIA instrument to push the foreign policy of the shadow government. Even though it is a private company, it uses taxpayers’ money to support our enemies and to oppress the people in third world countries….
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Joe also connects the CIA, Al Waleed and the Bushes to BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International)
Who Is The Real Enemy?Wars and Drug Trafficking Have Funded the Hidden Enemy for Generations

This feature is a follow-up to ‘Profiting from War.’

Why was the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) so important to the CIA, the Bush family and Prince Alwaleed?

It was a massive money spigot.

They stole billions of dollars from depositors in over 70 countries and used it to fund terrorist groups and start wars in order to steal taxpayers’ money in the trillions.



BCCI was used to fund both sides of the Iran/Iraq war, Iran-Contra and drug cartels. It was also used to fund the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, which would morph into Al Qaeda. George W. Bush would later declare Al Qaeda, public enemy number one.

Everything is connected.

Let’s step back and look at the big picture.

The CIA/shadow government, set up by George H.W. Bush, was controlling the drug trade worldwide and starting wars to both protect that drug trafficking and steal money from tax payers who were funding all the wars. It was a constant money spigot of funding for the cabal, and it was purposely centered around the Middle East.

The Middle East was being set up as a “war zone” to promote constant fear and expenditure of money along with lives in order to create a “never-ending war on terror.”

BCCI was at the center of that war against terrorism. It started out as a bank in Pakistan. That wasn’t a coincidence. Pakistan had some of the most lax banking laws and their intelligence service, known as ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) agency, was directly connected to the CIA. The BCCI Ponzi scheme lasted as long as it did because it was connected to the CIA and the intelligence agencies of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan….